A celebration and assessment of the art and pedagogy of artist Paul Harris who taught at CCA(C) from 1968 to 1992. Featuring commentary from artists and CCA alumni Diedrick Brackens, Sarah Hotchkiss, and others. Moderated by faculty member Glen Helfand. This event immediately follows the opening reception for the exhibition Everything Must Go! at PLAySPACE Gallery.

With a career spanning most of the 20th century, Paul Harris (1925-2018) evaded definition materially, thematically, and aesthetically as he confidently forged his own path in art and life. His formal training in painting, Harris’s media ranged from crayon and pencil to oil paint, string, fabric, and bronze. Pedagogy was also key to his practice, and he taught at California College of Arts and Crafts, as it was then known, from 1968 to 1992. This forum introduces Harris’s underknown art and legacy to current audiences and to consider the avant garde sculptor’s adventurous practice and pedagogy. Taking the artist’s engagement in a variety of disciplines and mediums, such as textiles, bronze, wood, printmaking, and painting and drawing and an experimental writing practice as a starting point, the evening will gather contemporary artists-who studied at the college, and a curator and critic with a long history at CCA, to reflect on the artist’s ethos of risk taking and experiments. Each of the three artists will respond to a work made by Paul Harris and touch on their own practices that relate to his tendencies and/or the mediums the artist worked across. The forum will revisit the artist and teacher's wildly popular, playful, radical coursework, such as the c. 1970s Sculpture Theater with newly discovered, rare found footage and conversations that look at the impact of his art and teaching, and that of the college's fine arts programs on artists working today. The program takes place during the artist’s centennial and on the occasion of The Boy Sews Like An Angel at Bolinas Museum and is jointly organized by CCA, the Paul Harris Estate, and Bolinas Museum.